Legal Opinion

Thomas E. Ballard v. Robert E. Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided March 29, 2002No. 01-2633PublishedCited by 102 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OBERDORFER, District Judge.

Thomas Ballard appeals an award of summary judgment on his claim that his former employer, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), violated the Rehabilitation Act by failing to accommodate his disability. After review, we conclude that Ballard never timely requested such accommodation, expressly or de facto, and thus the IRS was never obligated to provide it. We therefore affirm the district court.

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Ballard was employed by the IRS from 1967 until his retirement on January 1, 1999. After 1985 until his retirement he worked as a GS-14 large-case manager. As a result of…

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